On our way to check out the new Thai Chef & Noodle Fusion Friday, we noticed that 2006 Chestnut, former home to Arch Electronics has a liquor license for Jolly’s Rockin Piano Bar. We’ve heard Jolly has been looking for a new location and it seems this set-back storefront is the location.

2006 Chestnut Street [Google Street View]

A couple items of note on South 19th Street. Bootsie’s is now opening later, 11 AM instead of 7. And across the street Jolly’s and Pazzo Pizza Bar have both closed.

• Aqua, the Malaysian and Thai restaurant at 7th and Chestnut has opened.
• Michael Klein reports that the National Park Service is looking for a restaurant operator for the Kennedy-Supplee Mansion in Valley Forge Park. No word on whether the Park Service will be installing a space crippling metal fence around the mansion.
• A moderate priced Mexican BYOB is opening just about any day now at 744 Christian Street. Molcajete Mixto’s signature dishes will be served in hot volcanic rock (Inqlings).
• Former Starr chef Christopher Painter is the executive chef at Kitchen 223 in Haddon Heights, NJ. The American bistro will be open in about a month (Feeding Frenzy).
• Jolly’s Sporting Saloon may be leaving it’s 19th Street location (Icepack)

A.D. Amorosi’s article in last week’s City Paper kicked up quite the fuss resulting in three letters to the editor defending the credentials of Ed Rek of Restaurant M.

City Paper checks out the top five hotel bars in Philadelphia. And they run the gamut from chic to quaint.

• The Ritz-Carlton
• XIX
• The Omni
• Jolly’s at the Latham Hotel

Society Hill Hotel